The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has worked alongside the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) to make the tests available to schools across England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands.
However, schools will have to pay £3,550 in order to get their hands on the examinations.
The OECD’s PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) test for schools assesses 15-year-olds across its member countries in their reading, writing, and mathematics.
The resulting international league tables are hugely scrutinised by educationalists, politicians and policy-makers and often cited as justification for new initiatives and policies.
Schools using the new PISA-based test will be able to compare themselves to international and national averages and will receive feedback from the OECD.
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